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EXCLUSIVE: Intriguing French animation I Lost My Body has its world premiere in the Critics’ Week section of Cannes on Friday. Check out the first trailer above for the film from director Jérémy Clapin who co-wrote with Amélie‘s Guillaume Laurant. The story, which is a loose adaptation of Laurant’s 2006 book Happy Han…

EXCLUSIVE: French sales outfit Charades has boarded its first UK production in the shape of BBC Films and BFI-backed Lynn And Lucy, from first-time feature filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa and producer Camilla Bray (Oranges And Sunshine). Written and directed by Boulifa, a two-time winner of the Illy Prize for Best Short Film…

Genre market Frontières Platform (May 12-13), the co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and Cannes’ Marché du Film, will this year feature projects from Denis Côté, Ben Wheatley and Can Evrenol. The Frontières Buyers Showcase (Sunday May 13 at 4pm in Palais K) will feature 6 films, with…

Veteran sales agent Carole Baraton has joined forces with a trio of respected execs to launch international sales and co-production shop, Charades. The news comes following Baraton’s exit from Wild Bunch as Head of International Sales this month and on the eve of the European Film Market, which kicks off early next…